We discuss how to aggregate multiple criteria evaluations belonging to qualitative, linearly ordered scales. Qualitative aggregation operations such as min or max can be refined b...
The concept of a partial derangement is introduced and a versatile representation of partial derangements is proposed with permutations and derangements as special cases. The repre...
This papers studies a special “small” information retrieval problem where user satisfaction only depends on the ordering of documents. We look for a retrieval performance meas...
Using standard nonlinear programming (NLP) theory, we establish formulas for first and second order directional derivatives for optimal value functions of parametric mathematical ...
Let Un,p be the random unary predicate and Tk the almost sure first-order theory of Un,p under the linear ordering, where k is a positive integer and n−1/k p(n) n−1/(k+1) . F...